The Red Car: A Novel [Paperback]

Sharp and fiery&The novels furious action keeps the pages snapping by, but each incident, at times each sentence, is bubbling with equally furious ideas&There is, now, a literary term for a book you cant stop reading that makes you stop to think. It isA dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups.I've been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here.Pitch-perfect novel&Sprinkled with dark humor and many literary references, Dermanskys novel is ultimately one of compassion, optimism, and fierce feminism, in which an unmoored young woman enmeshed in bad relationships with men resets her life path.A swift and magical read . . . . Spare, funny and deftly observant of what happens when our repressed emotions reach a violent precipice.If you want to fall in love with a book almost at first sight (i.e. paragraph four) . . . read Marcy DermanskysDermanskys writing is taut and smart. And its a thrill to cheer on Leah, that admirable badass, wherever the red car takes her next.Marcy DermanskysThere are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly inA new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for.Ive long admired the work of Marcy Dermansky, and her latest is an absolute stunner.Dont be fooled byIn vivid, dreamlike prose. . . . Dermansky delivers a captivating novel about the pursuit of joy that combines dreamlike logic with dark humor, wry observation, and gritty feminism.Sleek and polished . . . . Dermansky's short, punchy chapters keep the tightly written novel moving smoothly along, and flashbacks to her past add depth without slowing momentum.[Dermanskys] latest explores the many unwise decisions of her heroine, offering no solutions but encouraging us to hope that things will get better. Readers wont be able to put this one down.Dry, entertaining and crookedly insightful. . . . [The Red Car] is on one level, a fairy tale complete with fairy godmother, and lÓÏ